Cool Picture Animation in PowerPoint

You can use the effect to reveal…

• A picture of your product
• A tourist destination
• An advertising banner etc.

Let us see how to create the effect in a step by step way.

Step 1: Create the mesh

Go to auto shapes menu -> basic shapes; pick the ‘Hexagon’ tool to create a proper hexagon while holding the ‘Shift’ tab.

 Make copies of the shape and create a close knit mesh to cover the entire slide area as shown below:

 Remove the outline and color the shapes black. Make sure that the entire screen looks dark (without traces of slide background anywhere)

Related: Creative hexagon shape ideas 

Step 2: Insert a picture of your choice

The next step is to insert a picture of your choice on the slide. Make sure that the picture covers the entire slide. Right click on the picture and ‘send it back’.

Step 3: Apply Exit animation

Select all the hexagons while holding the ‘Shift’ tab and go to custom animation pane. Apply Exit animation called ‘Fade’ to all. Make the start as ‘after previous’. Select all the animation events in the pane and right click to go to ‘Timing’. Enter the value as ‘0.05 seconds’.

Finally, move the animation sequence randomly. Here is how the animation pane looks:

When you play the animation you will get the effect shown at the start of this tutorial.

Variation of the effect:

You can change the picture by going to ‘Selection pane’. Hide all the elements on the slide. Click on the ‘picture’ to make it visible. You can change the picture using ‘Change picture’ option. Once done, click on the option called ‘Show all’. Here is a changed picture with the same animation effect:

You can have the hexagons colored white. Here is the effect with white hexagons:

Once you get the hang of the basic technique, you can play around with the shapes, colors, pictures etc.

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Here are some examples of reveal picture animation in PowerPoint from the pack:

Source:  Picture Effects  Section of Animation Pack

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